After a security wipe and a re-activation, the user is still getting e-mails from some strange personal account. For a while the user thought it was spam, but as I looked into it, they were in fact, some user's personal e-mail.

There's no service book entry for it, but it gets the e-mail. What gives?

HowieSee

06-18-2007 03:11 PM

LOL! i just got an e-mail reply from one of her friends - it had her contact. I called - she picked up. I guess she hasn't had a blackberry in over a year. WTF???

Frank Castle

06-18-2007 03:14 PM

Could either be a BIS account and plain SMS / PIN messages. I believe the BIS uses a service book so it's likely deleted so that would leave SMS / MMS .. have your carrier change the phone # attached to the device.

HowieSee

06-18-2007 03:19 PM

Definately not SMS - doesn't look like PIN.

HowieSee

06-18-2007 03:42 PM

LOL so three BIS accounts linked up to this blackberry - all now deleted, thanks for the refurb, cingular.

DarienA

06-19-2007 08:38 AM

Yeah I discovered the hard way that a wipe doesn't eliminate the PIN connection to a BIS account... luckily it didn't cause too much damage (one exec's old handheld went to another, and they got the 1st exec's personal emails for 2 weeks).

THAT took a little song and dance explaining.... <sigh>

x14

06-19-2007 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by DarienA
(Post 573530)

Yeah I discovered the hard way that a wipe doesn't eliminate the PIN connection to a BIS account... luckily it didn't cause too much damage (one exec's old handheld went to another, and they got the 1st exec's personal emails for 2 weeks).

THAT took a little song and dance explaining.... <sigh>

Lucky the first exec's spouse wasn't having an affair with the second exec's spouse and was talking over PIN.

DarienA

06-19-2007 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by x14
(Post 573591)

Lucky the first exec's spouse wasn't having an affair with the second exec's spouse and was talking over PIN.

Ouch... now that would have been bad...

centrekin

06-19-2007 10:17 AM

So, how do you get rid of personal email accounts set up on the devices? I have a device using a bis account that I can not get off. :?

DarienA

06-19-2007 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by centrekin
(Post 573641)

So, how do you get rid of personal email accounts set up on the devices? I have a device using a bis account that I can not get off. :?

Two ways I know of are to call your provider and they can do it, or if your provider gives you a website to manage your BIS account I believe you can do it there as well.

Actually I think If you're just going from one handheld to another you can do it through the handhelds if they have a setup internet email icon. Through the handheld I think you can only switch, I don't think you can disconnect completely. That you can definitely do through calling, and I believe you can do through the website.

Ugg

06-19-2007 10:46 AM

If the devices have handheld software 4.2, and you aren't worried about getting other BIS emails, there's always the device-side firewall as an option - try setting that to block BIS mails.